If I'm ever just looking at you and nodding along to conversation, 70% of the time it is head empty with this in the background
Time. Readers are looking at colors, line, background, text, characters-- everything all at once! Gotta work smart when deciding where your efforts go, not just so that you can hit a deadline but so your page ends up beautiful. Knowing when to turn off details is half the work.
Research. Every story has its design problems to solve. I needed to create a uniform that felt authentic to the setting, felt gender-neutral, worked for many bodytypes and was honestly and most importantly: cool as hell. The design I went with had to function for 300 pages!
my artistic process lately
A quick refresher I did with my art team at @play_multiverse to practice how to understand your references, and use them meaningfully and in a way that keeps the energy in your sketches! our team does weekly foundation sessions together just to keep our brain juices going
No one did it like Bill Watterson
check ins
Me: please send me updates of my cat My lil bro: ok
Left: it's 2014, I'm a high schooler. I got my signed copy of the Legend of Korra art book when I met one of the co-creators. Told him I became an artist because of the Avatar series. Right: 2021. I get to share that I co-created an official Avatar story for Free Comic Book Day.
One of those days
you best believe it is the #sameartist